We here the sinner’s history read

Verse 1
We here the sinner’s hist’ry read,
Who dead in sin and doubly dead
Is carrying to the tomb:
Happy, before he reach the pit,
If Jesus the procession meet,
And to his rescue come.

Verse 2
Follow’d, and by the Church deplor’d
(That widow of her heavenly Lord)
Insensible he lies:
The mother sad with pious tears
Bewails her son, till Christ appears,
And bids the dead arise.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.'—[Luke 7,] v. 12.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 162.
Publishing: Public Domain